14-letter words containing y, n
- sodium cyanide — a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble, poisonous powder, NaCN, prepared by heating sodium amide with charcoal: used chiefly in casehardening alloys, in the leaching and flotation of ore, and in electroplating.
- south tyneside — a unitary authority of NE England, in Tyne and Wear. Pop: 151 700 (2003 est). Area: 64 sq km (25 sq miles)
- southern yemen — a former name of Yemen (def 1).
- spellbindingly — in a spellbinding manner
- spending money — money for small personal expenses.
- spinning jenny — an early spinning machine having more than one spindle, enabling a person to spin a number of yarns simultaneously.
- spiny anteater — echidna.
- spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
- spy-in-the-sky — of or relating to a surveillance camera mounted on an aircraft or orbiting satellite
- st. john's day — the saint's day of St. John the Baptist, celebrated on June 24, being one of the four quarter days in England.
- st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
- stagflationary — of, caused by, or relating to, stagflation
- standard money — money made of a metal that has utility and value apart from its use as a unit of monetary exchange.
- stanley dancer — Stanley, 1927–2005, U.S. harness racer and trainer.
- start-up money — money that is spent on setting up a new business or other project
- state attorney — (in judicial proceedings) the legal representative of the state.
- stay stitching — a line of stitches made in the seam allowance to prevent the edges from stretching
- stay the night — If you stay the night in a place, you sleep there for one night.
- stay-in strike — sit-down strike.
- steel industry — production of steel
- sticky fingers — an inclination or tendency to steal or pilfer
- stirling cycle — a highly efficient thermodynamic cycle in which air or an inert gas is compressed and expanded
- stony tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 1550 km (960 miles) long
- storming party — a group deployed to make the first assault on a position or building
- strange to say — surprisingly
- strong-eye dog — a dog trained to control sheep by its gaze
- styling mousse — a light foamy substance applied to the hair before styling in order to retain the shape of the style
- styptic pencil — a pencil-shaped stick of a paste containing alum or a similar styptic agent, used to stanch the bleeding of minor cuts.
- subconsciously — existing or operating in the mind beneath or beyond consciousness: the subconscious self. Compare preconscious, unconscious.
- subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
- subcutaneously — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
- subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- substantiality — of ample or considerable amount, quantity, size, etc.: a substantial sum of money.
- sugar refinery — place where sugar is processed
- sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
- sulfinyl group — the bivalent group >SO.
- sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
- sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
- sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
- sunday trading — the fact of opening a shop or business on a Sunday
- supereminently — in a supereminent manner; to a supereminent degree
- superfecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
- superintensity — the quality of being extremely intense
- supernaturally — of, relating to, or being above or beyond what is natural; unexplainable by natural law or phenomena; abnormal.
- superseniority — seniority that is granted or held without regard to age or service.
- supplementally — supplementary.
- supplicatingly — in a pleading manner
- support buying — buying carried out to support an exchange rate
- surinam cherry — a tropical American tree, Eugenia uniflora, of the myrtle family, having ovate leaves and fragrant, white flowers.